Sources and original illustrations

Primary references and the limits of this educational collection.

Primary references

• California DRE tenant guide, 2026 edition — Current state guidance on entry, repairs, payment, survivor termination, photographs and tenancy categories, with statutory references.
• California Attorney General landlord-tenant issues — Prohibited lockouts, Tenant Protection Act scope, local overlays and fair housing.
• California Courts: responding to an eviction case — Current Answer deadline, service-dependent calculation and response procedure.
• California Civil Rights Department housing guidance — Disability-related housing requests, documentation limits and discrimination protections.
• CRD reasonable accommodations, February 2026 — Changes to housing rules or practices, requests and individual reasonableness analysis.
• CRD reasonable modifications — Physical access changes, payment responsibility, workmanlike installation and restoration questions.
• CRD source of income questions — Voucher protection and tenant-portion income screening.
• FTC tenant background checks and rights — Adverse-action notice, free report within 60 days and disputes of inaccurate screening information.
• California Courts: single lodgers — Narrow owner-occupied single-lodger category and the importance of actual living arrangements.
• DRE summary of chaptered 2025 legislation — AB 628 stove and refrigerator requirements, AB 1414 internet opt-out and SB 610 disaster changes effective in 2026.
• San Francisco security deposit interest rate schedule — Annual due date and rate periods, including March 2026 to February 2027.
• San Francisco Administrative Code Chapter 49 — Simple interest, one-year holding condition and local interest structure.
• Berkeley Rent Board unit information lookup — Registry fields, current rent versus apparent lawful ceiling, stale entries and correction process.
• Oakland tenant move-out agreement ordinance — Local regulation of compensation offers to vacate a rental unit.
• Oakland move-out agreement information sheet — Tenant disclosures, voluntary decision-making and protections in negotiated move-out agreements.
• California Courts: tenant rights in foreclosure — Tenant-specific foreclosure protections, fixed-term leases, notice and court process.
• California Courts: tenant notice types — Different pre-lawsuit notices, their purposes and programme-specific differences.
• CRD source of income fact sheet — Protected lawful income sources and application of affordability criteria to the tenant's share.
• Senator Pérez: signed disaster protections legislation — Enacted SB 610 protections for disaster debris, remediation and mandatory evacuation rent.
• Berkeley guide to rent control, January 2026 — Local coverage distinctions and lawful rent ceiling context.

Original visual material

The diagrams in this edition are original SVG illustrations explaining the sequence or decisions in each guide. They do not show a laboratory experiment, a personal trip or a tested product result. No photographs from the linked sources are reproduced.

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References were consulted during preparation of this edition. A source may cover a broader or narrower question than a particular guide; the support notes above explain why it is listed. Read the original for methodology, exceptions and updates.